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  • €650,000
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  • 3 bedrooms
  • House  3 bedrooms
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  • Monemvasia
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The house is a honey-coloured stone wall, with terracotta roof tiles and wood built detached186m2 castle house. It was rebuilt and restored in 1972, just the way it used to be in the medieval years with modern facilities. In Monemvasia’s old castle with a panoramic sea sun-rise view just 100m walk from the blue - crystal clear Myrtoan sea where the sun illuminates it for 300 days a year. Living in such a house, it is all around. Strolling on well-marked paths, gain something even more special. Old stone streets, noble mansions hundreds of years old, Byzantine churches, works of art: In this Medieval castle city of Monemvasia (single entrance to undisturbed history and inspiring silence), you do not read history, you walk through it, touch it, experience it. The feeling of walking along historic, stone-paved lanes, surrounded by lush vegetation and absolute quiet is itself a monumental experience ” Monemvasia’s fortress, which has never ceased to be inhabited, is now home to around 20families, Greek and foreign among which Ralf (Scot) and Hilda (Irish), who live here permanently making it easy to get to know each other and keeping company to each other at restaurants taverns, coffee shops and bars; many more are daily commuters, who run guesthouses, tavernas, bars and tourist shops inside the walls. The house for sale is located at the end of the shopping street where medieval taverns and cellars once kept prized stocks of Malvasia: Monemvasia’s famous local wine from indigenous Malvasia grape dates back to 12th century Greece. The castle city of Monemvasia has a striking position: strangely perched on a giant rock joined to the rest of the Peloponnese by a causeway built in the 2oth century to replace a 6th century stone bridge that had 14 archers and a removable wooden section in the middle. To get into the old castle town, there is only one entrance through a narrow passage. If you have a car, you can drive up to the main gate of the castle city and you have to leave your car outside the old town. Historians called Monemvasia (single entrance) “the Gibraltar of the East”. This castle three-level house (186 m2) has: tree entrances, two of which at the main central stone-paved lane of the castle town, 18m2 back yard , two roofs with a panoramic sea view, stony fireplace, air condition, three bedrooms,
The house is a honey-coloured stone wall, with terracotta roof tiles and wood built detached186m2 castle house. It was rebuilt and restored in 1972, just the way it used to be in the medieval years with modern facilities. In Monemvasia’s old castle with a panoramic sea sun-rise view just 100m walk from the blue - crystal clear Myrtoan sea where t...
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